What's New?

With updated Salesforce Content Recommendations, users can now view relevant recommended content on Accounts, Contacts, and Leads in addition to Opportunities. As an admin you can use more granular fields to set rules for content recommendations. For example, you can now recommend content with the tag 'Medical' for accounts with the industry 'Healthcare'. You can also now select which categories sales reps see as part of their content recommendations, and hide sections you don't want visible. As a sales rep, you can now find and share more relevant content for sales conversations based on details such as an account's industry.

Slide-level analytics expands our content analytics offering by letting you get more granular information on your content stored in Showpad. With this feature, you can easily drill down into any slideor page in a document, or group certain slides together for reporting. This allows you to get data on what sellers prefer to use internally, or what captures your prospects' interest – page by page within a document.

With improved administrative capabilities, you can now save time by managing content and users at scale. With bulk editing of assets, you can manage large content repositories with ease. It allows making changes to any asset property - including release and expiry dates - in bulk.Second, Showpad's improved user management functions give administrators an overview of all user groups and now has advanced filtering and sorting options. Lastly, with the ability to toggle My Files and Asset Comments on or off by user group, you can control who has access to these functions. You can control access for resellers, or gradually roll out these features to your team.

Showpad users and external participants of a Shared Space can now manage their email notification settings. This will help them get notified on what matters most to them, to stay informed for a better sales experience.For customers that have one of our CRM integrations, you can now track content shared and invites sent in Shared Spaces to your CRM – giving a complete overview of all shares made through Showpad.

Receive weekly insights with the new Admin Email Digest November 14, 2018

Showpad’s Admin Email Digest delivers insights into content usage and platform adoption right to your inbox. Friday mornings, admins receive an email with a recap of the most popular assets, most active users, and most popular search terms for the past 30 days, as well as which content is about to expire if you’ve set any expiration dates. You can see what content is trending upwards. These actionable insights help you to determine what content you’ll need to create next, to make better strategic decisions as a result. You can unsubscribe from the digest at any time in your account settings.

Create visually-appealing, on-brand Pages that organize content around a specific topic or persona so sales can have more contextually relevant conversations with buyers.Using a drag and drop interface, marketers can easily build a responsive Page by mixing and matching various content blocks to incorporate photos, product descriptions and relevant assets as well as links to Experiences and other Pages. Showpad administrators can create Pages with a modern, visually-appealing design aesthetic that supports your overall content marketing strategy and deliver a consistent buyer experience on all platforms.

With support for embedded media in PowerPoint, videos and GIFs embedded in PPTX and PPSX files will now play from Showpad on any device. As an admin, you can manage and distribute rich PowerPoint presentations to users like any other piece of content. Once distributed, users can find, present, and share these assets with ease. These changes are applied to assets that are uploaded after today's release.

Deliver a more personalized email with sharing improvements November 14, 2018

Showpad users can now save a personal email signature so it will be included in any email sent through Showpad on iOS and the Web app. Users can also fill out their contact information in a sales rep profile, and prospects can access their contact information from within the About section in the Shared Content Viewer.Prospects will receive sharedcontent embedded in the email as hyperlinks for a seamless buyer experience.

With Showpad’s improved Salesforce integration, you can now enable mapping Showpad Shares to custom objects in Salesforce. The updated Salesforce configuration menu has an option to select which custom objects you want to log activity to. This allows you to combine your existing Salesforce workflow with Showpad’s sharing insights.

Use Showpad integrations with Outreach and Salesloft to track insights November 14, 2018

By using the Showpad integrations with Outreach and Salesloft, users and admins can quickly find and share content through their preferred sales engagement tool. Dynamic links allow for each individual interaction from recipients with shared content will be tracked – allowing you to perfectly time and tailor your follow up, and gauge your recipient’s level of interest.

Use Showpad integrations with Marketo track lead insights November 14, 2018

By using the Marketo and Showpad integration, users and admins can quickly find and share content to use in Marketo emails using the Showpad for Chrome extension. Dynamic links allow tracking for each individual interaction from recipients with shared assets. This gives more insight into how leads are engaging with content.

Locking pages lets you, as an admin, keep control of mixing and matching the content by grouping proprietary and regulated information. You can now lock a range of pages in the asset permissions on the Online Platform. Document pages will always be grouped together in shares, collections, and Shared Spaces.

Cloud for Customer (C4C) is part of SAP's cloud solution and it manages customer sales, customer services, and marketing activities. Connecting your favorite CRM tool with the relevant Showpad sharing activities is a powerful combination. It keeps your sales reps engaged in C4C while still seeing the Showpad sharing activities.

Users on Showpad's Android app can quickly share content anywhere by creating a sharing link or URL. The link to shared content is copied to your clipboard, so you can paste it into another sharing or messaging app and gain insight into what happens after you send it out. Also available on iOS.

Browse for content in Advanced Experiences on Outlook October 17, 2018

Sales reps can now navigate through Advanced Experiences on Showpad for Outlook to find and share content in whatever way is familiar to them. With Showpad for Outlook, sales reps can access Showpad content using their Outlook account and track how their prospects and customers interact with it. Already available on Showpad for Chrome.

A new option has been added to sharing on Android so that sales reps can now decide whether or not the recipient of the content can download an original copy of the created Share. This is extremely helpful when sharing personal and confidential documents from a MyFiles channel. Already available on web, iOS, and Gmail plugin.

Understand how sales reps communicate with prospects on Android October 12, 2018

Navigation analytics are now tracking activity for content on Android! Get a more in-depth understanding of the conversation paths taken by your sales reps when they are working with customers and prospects. Being able to view how reps navigate through an Experience will aid you in making content decisions that lead to more closed deals. Not only can you visualize what approaches are most effective, but you can utilize the available filters to see the most common pathways as well as the ability to drill down into the insights on detailed pages. Already available on web and iOS.

Sales reps can now share URLs to prospects and customers from their Android devices. This includes the ability to log activity related to that URL, which gives you flexibility on what and how users share content with Showpad. This feature is also available on web and iOS.

Easily keep track of messages you've sent offline with Outbox for Android. When you're sharing content with prospects while your device is offline, you can now navigate to an Outbox feature in your Share section to see any pending shares. Once you're back online, your shares will send as normal!

When users are searching keywords to find content on Android they will now also see relevant video assets. Existing and new videos will be transcribed so that words found in their transcriptions will populate them as search results, even if the keyword isn't in the name of the file.

When users are searching keywords to find content on iOS they will now also see relevant video assets. Existing and new videos will be transcribed so that words found in their transcriptions will populate them as search results, even if the keyword isn't in the name of the file.

Users on Android are now able to manage their own files in the My Files channel. My Files has replaced the My Uploads channel and offers extra functionality to users. Not only can they now upload their own files, but they also have the flexibility to manage their assets in folders and use various sorting options. As always, content uploaded in My Files can be easily presented, shared and tracked through Showpad.

With Showpad’s first integration with LearnCore, users can access their sales readiness, content, and engagement tools all in one spot. When a LearnCore course is synced to Showpad, any changes automatically update to Showpad, so your team can feel confident their information is up-to-date. This integration enables sales teams to use Showpad’s powerful search and intuitive interface to discover and access both the sales content and training they need in one solution, resulting in better buyer interactions and greater sales success.

New and improved capabilities with the Sharepoint integrationJuly 11, 2018

Showpad's integration with SharePoint has gained some improved features for content synchronization. Specific column naming conventions are no longer necessary to sync properties to Showpad. Now you can map multiple choice columns as individual tags to Showpad. In addition, you have the option to include the column name with the tags to help differentiate between values in multiple columns. You will also be able to sync various asset permissions to Showpad depending on the column configuration in your SharePoint account.

The more complex or spatially-oriented a product is, the wiser it is to adopt a visual selling strategy. 3D assets offer customers a whole new world of immersive experience as they can see with their own eyes exactly what to expect. By supporting 3D models on the Web app, iOS, Shared Spaces, and the content viewer for prospects, Showpad enables salespeople to deliver a visual selling strategy that immerses prospects in any type of product, delivering an interactive and differentiated buyer experience.

Deliver a better, more immersive buyer experience on iOS to transform how buyers learn about your products, by using augmented reality to show buyers virtual products within the context of their actual environment. By supporting augmented reality use cases, Showpad is helping its customers transform selling discussions by allowing sales to carry an unlimited number of products, regardless of size, and enabling deeper, more interesting conversations for even the most complex products.

Easily sync the content stored in your cloud repositories with Showpad. This eliminates the work of uploading documents manually and having to track whether the most updated content lives in Showpad. Manage your content from your cloud storage platform as before but now trust that the content you want is being pushed to Showpad regularly. Edit the configuration at any time to add or delete files as needed.

Now you can use the Showpad Edit tool to modify more than just Powerpoint files. With this update, you can now also edit Word and Excel files and add them to your My Files channel. In addition, Office 365 for Business users can edit these files with Office Online to be automatically uploaded to their personal channel. Both allow for the ability to track activity on modified files and their original versions.

The Showpad Support team lives to facilitate an effortless experience. We expanded this site with an online community where you can talk with other Showpad fans. In the community, you can help and inspire each other with tips and tricks. You can share with other fans what you love about Showpad. It's accessible for admins, users, and developers, making it easy to find topics in which you are interested. We look forward to your participation!

Sales teams can share URLs to prospects and customers just like they would other assets. This includes the ability to log activity related to that URL giving you flexibility on what and how users share content using Showpad. Set permissions and gather usage reporting in the Online Platform. Existing URLs are now converted to URL assets with this release.

Showpad's marketing content analytics is now extended to include Microsoft Office files that have been modified by sales users. Admins can view details on each customized version and track them to the source document. They can view these assets to see what changes were made and what is working for their sales teams. Easily see what collateral is most effective, including those files that have been tweaked or altered.

With the improved Showpad for Chrome extension, you can use the Gmail plugin as you always have but now you have the option to share content directly from your Chrome browser. Using this new feature, you create a link to your selected content or you can automatically insert that link into several social sharing platforms. Now you can leverage popular sharing methods to distribute content to others while still tracking engagement with your collateral. The Gmail plugin is part of the extension package but can be used as a standalone for those who prefer sharing via their Gmail account.

Admins can now increase their sales teams knowledge by integrating MindTickle learning tools with Showpad. By automating the flow of series and courses from the LMS into a designated part of Showpad, you can be confident that sales reps have quick access to the information they need to have better sales conversations. Track the activity of these tools as assets to guarantee your team is ready with all the right facts to best position your offerings.

For customers of Azuqua, you can now configure an integration between Showpad and either Bynder or Widen using this connector. Set up FLOs to automate certain actions regarding the assets stored in these repositories. This eliminates a lot of the manual work behind managing content between two systems. It also allows your Digital Asset Management system to remain the single source of truth for your collateral.

Users can connect their Google Calendar and Zoom account under the Present tab in Showpad's Web App. Once connected, they can get an overview of their online meetings, past meetings, and launch any upcoming ones straight from Showpad. They can easily download recordings of the past meetings they've had with prospects without leaving the Web app.

Administrators using Showpad’s channel package can assign different license types to indirect sales users (partners and resellers) and direct sales users. This makes it easy to identify what license type a user has, ensuring streamlined user management and reporting. When activated, all users have a direct license type by default. Showpad’s channel package allows for an unlimited number of partner licenses. Direct license types users remain limited. Together with the new license type, we introduce bulk editing functionality so administrators can easily update any existing users.

It can be a timesaver to pass on specific Showpad information to your other marketing and sales platforms. Creating automated workflows saves time for sales and marketing teams by allowing them to stay in the same application. Through webhooks, you can build event-based and custom-built integrations for your organization. Webhooks trigger events that can be used to perform actions in your integrations and other, custom middleware platforms.

We've improved the overall layout of Content Recommendations for Salesforce, providing sellers with a clearer overview of the available recommended content and what to do with the suggested assets. You can now easily see which content is recommended to share for an opportunity, review the popular content of your organization, and learn from internal content to prepare for a meeting with your prospect.